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HI,
All of a sudden, for no apparent reason, when loading my own songs, I get a few seconds delay, then a huge black window entitled "Video Window" appears over the top of the regular BIAB window.
I don't know why, but I would like to stop it. Grateful for help!
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if it's any clue, there's also suddenly an extra track called "Audio" "Stereo 32 bit" that plays together with the real styles, but with a slight delay. of course, the Erase Track action doesn't get rid of it. 
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another clue, i did previously generate a video file "Save as video" to create an AVI file for upload to YouTube.
But now it seems like BIAB is attempting to load the video file whenever I open the song file, which I really do not want.
If I delete the video file, then I get all sorts of error messages and a crash.
How do I tell BIAB not to load video files, after I have exported them?
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If you save the video with the same name as the SGU it will load that in when it opens the SGU and attach a 32 bit wav file also.
Close the SGU then remove the video file and the wav file then open the SGU and see if that works.
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Rename the AVI video file and the audio file to names that do not match the name of your SGU file. That way you don't lose the files you've created.
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You guys nailed it thanks! Removing the .AVI file fixed it. It was actually even more complicated than that for me. BIAB exports AVI video files that are very inefficient in terms of quality and storage size. I converted to MP4 h264 that resulted in 5Mb file instead of 50Mb. After this, I deleted the AVI but left the MP4 with same filename as song. This causes BIAB to suicidally open the Video Window, which then crashes BIAB. Fun times  Good to have this thread as reference if other people suffer from this. Maybe PG MUSIC could offer MP4 and better codecs for video export. This is a very nice feature if you haven't used it, and a good alternative to audio export, as you get the audio plus visuals of the chord sheet. When using MP4 H264 the video file size is the same as 320bps MP3 audio file.
Last edited by konaboy; 02/04/23 11:55 PM.
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AVI is very old, they should be able to include FFmpeg with Biab, if they can't encode direct then use the command line to encode the avi to mp4:
‘ffmpeg -i input.avi -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 19 -c:a libvo_aacenc -b:a 128k’
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